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Coming up in the week ahead on TV and on radio

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11 October 2024

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HIGHLIGHT: Sunday Worship As the BBC Singers celebrate their centenary, Canon Angela Tilby leads a service, recorded in St Martin-in-the-Fields, reflecting on the group’s legacy of religious broadcasting.

Sunday 8.10am, Radio 4


TELEVISION:
Sunday 1.15pm (BBC1) Songs of Praise Mark De-Lisser meets the gospel artists and church pastors Volney and Angel Morgan to explore how gospel music enables them to express their faith.

Tuesday 9pm (BBC2) Life and Death in Gaza A documentary chronicling the experiences of four Palestinian people living through the conflict in Gaza.

Thursday 9pm (BBC2) A House Through Time: Two cities at war David Olusoga traces the parallel lives of residents of Berlin, and London, during the Second World War (1/4).

10pm (C4) Everyone Else Burns The second series of a sitcom about a strictly religious family from Man­chester who believe that the world will end in the next decade (1-2/6).


RADIO: Friday 1.30pm
(World Service) Heart and Soul Yoga is now big business. Geeta Pendse asks: has it lost its spiritual roots?

Sunday 3pm (R3) Choral Evensong A repeat of this week’s Choral Evening Prayer, live from Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral on the feast of St John Henry Newman.

Wednesday 3pm (R3) Choral Evensong Live from Blackburn Cathedral.

9.30pm (R4) The Conflict: Middle East BBC journalists reflect on events in the region, a year after the 7 October attack by Hamas (1/6).

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